Christian Inspiration
Pierre Puvis de Chavannes French
Not on view
Combining watercolor and pastel, this work lays out the composition for one of three major murals Puvis designed for the staircase of the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Lyon. To treat the subject of Christianity as a source of inspiration for making art, Puvis shows a "Fra Angelico-type" working to complete a mural while younger artists look on. He dedicated the sheet to one of his own students, Paul Baudoüin, who became a leading practitioner of fresco in late nineteenth-century France.
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